Abstract
Photons do not interact, unless they meet in a suitable nonlinear material. Within that material it is possible to perform logical operations on two light beams or store information by means of optical bistability. Outside of such a material light beams are well suited to carry out the communication jobs of computing, especially for highly parallel computing.
The fundamentals of optical computing will be explained, a laboratory experiment will be described, and it will be discussed how integrated optics might contribute to digital optical processing.
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Lohmann, A.W. (1985). Digital Optical Computing. In: Nolting, HP.J., Ulrich, R. (eds) Integrated Optics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39452-5_3
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